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Pineapple Conserve

A sweet pineapple and strawberry preserve made by cooking the fruit with sugar until thick.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Pineapple and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 19% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,841 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Pineapple Conserve

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Pare the pineapples and grind them using a meat grinder.

  2. Combine the ground pineapples with the strawberries and sugar.

Cook and seal

  1. Cook the mixture until it thickens to a jelly-like consistency.

  2. Seal the conserve while it is still hot.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Pineapple + sugartop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,841 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Pineapples
Provides the main fruit bulk and a tart, bright flavour.
Strawberries
Adds fruity aroma and flavour to the mixture.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and, as it concentrates during cooking, helps the mixture thicken.

The step that matters

Cook until jelly-like. As water evaporates, the sugar and fruit concentrate and thicken. Stopping too early leaves the preserve runny, while cooking too long makes it stiff and dense.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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